The equation of state, elastic constants, and Poisson's ratio of a crystalline two-dimensional polydisperse hard disk system were determined in the close packing limit. Monte Carlo simulations in the NpT ensemble with variable shape of the periodic box reveal that the pressure and elastic constants grow with increasing polydispersity. The equation of state and the bulk modulus are well described by the free volume approximation. The latter approximation fails, however, for the shear modulus. The simulations also show that the introduction of any amount of size polydispersity in the hard disk systems causes a discontinuous "jump" of the Poisson's ratio in the close packing limit from the value ν(δ=0) = 0.1308(22), obtained for equidiameter hard disks, to ν(δ>0) ≈ 1, estimated for the polydisperse disks.
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